#traar

Oh, thank you! That’s a really old fic—it’s one of my first longish ones (certainly that I finished), so it’s always nice to hear that people are still reading. I’m glad you enjoyed it, and my other stuff, too.

Thanks!

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So it turns out that 1) Elizabeth, yet again, can’t stop thinking of this latest Darcy-provoked surprise, and 2) Elizabeth was kind of hoping that Jane and Bingley’s marriage would throw them together. A bit. Maybe. Just a possibility!

(perfect premise for a fluff fic, y/y? I wrote a really angsty one where that happens–like, one where ten people die–but it’d be nice to read something that’s just Darcy and Elizabeth stumbling across each other at Netherfield and being awkward and adorable)

was this posted elsewhere? because I seem to have read it a long time ago. I used to post JA fic and read at the DWG, so maybe there?

Yep. AO3 didn’t exist when I wrote it; I only posted it there when I got my account and started moving fics over. 

Specifically: OTP is separated for reasons. They never see each other again for years, despite their closeness and any number of common friends or family. It’s highly probable that their paths would cross with zero effort on their parts, and with minimal effort would be a certainty. They only have to reach out, and there’s nothing preventing them doing so.

Because “the person you love can’t do your growing for you” apparently equals “you have to indefinitely detach yourself from the person you love to grow as a person,” they’re severed emotionally as well as physically, and end up with other people as part of their growth or whatever while never resolving their own relationship. Eventually, the love interests that symbolize Growth are set aside by authorial fiat and they’re able to find love together as mature people. The underlying assumption is that they weren’t ready to be together at the earlier point and couldn’t have worked through things together. But it’s not exactly clear why, beyond some bittersweet sense that people have to deal with their issues all on their own to really get through them, and probably need a relationship trial run before they’re ready to reunite with the person they really love.

This is weirdly detailed, and yet it pretty much always hits those exact notes. I guess in fairness to ... myself?, mine skipped a few (I didn’t mean it to be didactic at all, so a lot comes down to sheer bad luck), but it’s still very much that kind of story. And yet I enjoyed it, where I usually hate writing things that I don’t like to read. IDK.

H: How would you describe your style?

Hmm, spare yet prolix! I can’t write concisely to save my life, but I also am twitchy about … excess, I suppose—in descriptions, exposition, whatever. Definitely more cerebral than emotional: not that I don’t write emotion, of course, but not in a raw way. More reflective than visceral. Definitely heavy on dialogue and introspection.

I remember talking with @ladytharen about it a ways back … oh, I think it was in the context of how my Persuasion/RO AU felt so different from operaticspacetrash’s even beyond the reversed roles. And it was hard to put into words beyond … something like ‘I write emotions, but my style is colder, I think.’

Q: Do you have any discarded scenes/storylines/projects?

Hahahahahaha

Yes. Hundreds. I mean, there are things I gave up on midway (>_>), but probably just as many things I sketched out or wrote scraps of and then never bothered with. And I have entire docs just for bits and pieces that either didn’t work, or I found something I liked better, or whatnot—I save them because I’m a word hoarder sometimes they’re useful down the road, but mostly … not. 

More now than when I was younger, I think, I’m willing to scrap significant chunks that don’t work. Like, originally now we’re the future had another flashback to a conversion between Cassian and Chirrut after Eadu, and I wrote most of it and sketched out the rest, but I felt like two of them slowed down the overall fic too much, and that one in particular broke the pacing of the main scene.

X: A character you enjoy making suffer?

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